Civil War 1
Gave the Union the moral high ground by freeing all non free people in states not in the Union
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The expansion of suffrage
What is the reason for Andrew Jackson having a larger popular vote
More likely to die of disease than in battle
Who were soldiers
Drove freed people into a life of peonage
?What is tennant farming and sharecropping
Ruled Segregation was constitutional
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
The copperheads
Who were democrats who opposed the war in the north?
Fired Edwin Stanton Secretary of War
what is the reason president Johnson was impeached by the house
Helped Black Soldiers win acceptance into the Union Army
Who were the 54th Massachusetts regiment
Not able to Serve on Juries
What Black codes denied African Americans the right to do
Compromise of 1877
What ended Reconstruction
Last battle the Confederacy initiated the attack.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Outlaws slavery in all states
What is the 13th Amendment?
Excellent Military leadership
What is an advantage the Confederacy had over the north
Ensured the right to due process
Reversed the Dredd Scott Decision
Defined citizenship as those who were born in or naturalized in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment
Pardoned former Confederates
What is the Amnesty Act of 1872
To block the souths attempts to trade cotton
What is the reason for the naval blockade of the anaconda plan?
Prior to the end of the war started to aid formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the south
What is the Freedmens bureau?
The constitutional right to appear before a judge to determine if one is fairly imprisoned. Lincoln suspended this right
What is Habeas Corpus
Excused Whites from poll taxes and literacy tests
What is the grandfather clause?
Terrorized Black people and white republicans
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
Eventually authorized to be recruited into the Army
Who were African Americans
All African Americans should have equal rights
What is the Radical Republicans main ideal
Overcame ridicule from men who thought they were unladylike
Who are women who medically treated soldiers/
Laws that segregated the south
What are Jim Crow Laws
More deadly modern weaponry
What is different from earlier American wars